Word: charterers
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Meanwhile the Constitutional Convention went about its task of writing a charter for a proposed student government by outlining the six broad issues it will consider in its debates...
...Boston, the voters tossed out of office a trio of the city's antibusing leaders, including Louise Day Hicks, the soft-spoken but tough-talking former councilwoman who had become the symbol of resistance to integration. Simultaneously, however, the voters turned down a reform of the city charter designed to make it harder-by changing representational patterns-for one small, determined group, like the antibusers, to have more power than they deserve. Charter reform succumbed to a cautious electorate that preferred to switch candidates instead of the system...
Issues such as these have confronted the roughly 50 delegates to the Harvard convention that has begun the process of writing a charter for a college-wide student government. Whether the government these delegates from--if they form one--will gain sufficient credibility and effectively mobilize student opinion, as the Brown, Yale and Princeton governments have done on occasion, is another question...
Philip B. Heymann, professor of Law, who will conduct the "Survival" session with State Rep. Barney Frank '61, said yesterday that, unlike other programs for mayor-elects, this one will include case studies, such as the issue of charter reform in Boston...
...city faced many unsolved problems: corruption the housing authority, excessive demands for wages from municipal unions, stagnation of Kendall Square development efforts and confusion in the city's federal aid programs. The council decided that Cambridge needed a strong manager in fact as well as in charter, and in 1974, after elections had brought another shift in the line-up, the council asked Sullivan to return after he had spent four years as city manager in Lowell, Massachusetts...